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Hard strum distorts signal

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Hiya Folks,
Trying my hand at some circuits, found the May Queen by ROG. Put it together, subbing some npn transistors i have. It works, but the input is easily overloaded when I strum. I have no idea where to begin trouble shooting his. I am open to suggestions. I'll check the values, reflow, etc. It seems to me that I'm missing something...(lol)
thanks,
pg

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Good Lord, what a clusterf*** . First thing I found was a resistor off by an order of magnitude, replaced it witha 470K. Then I had a cap crosswired. Finally, I reduced the input cap from 10n to 4.7n and now it works.
whew!